My iPod classic tries to sync evertime I add any music to it

I recently bought a new iPod classic 80 Gb. I have managed to transfer all the music I had on my old one to the new one but this took a while so I am reluctent to restore unless I have to. But that all worked fine.
I am set up to update manually, not sync. I have considerably less free space on my hard drive than my iPod has so syncing would not work for me.
It was all fine until I tried to add some music from my work computer. After transferring it came up at the top 'Syncing, do not disconnect'. I have left it like this for at least half a hour and nothing. I have a cancel button, but clicking it just causes i-tunes to freeze. I can try to eject the iPod, it asks if I am sure and then freezes anyway. I then have to force quit i-tunes. And after doing this the songs aren't actually on my iPod despite the fact they showed as there on iTunes.
This only happens when I try to put new music on my iPod, I can edit existing tracks fine.
I have now tried on 3 computers and the same thing so it must be an issue with the iPod.
Anyone have any ideas that don't involve me restoring the thing. I will do it if I have to, but would rather not have to sort out all my existing music again.

Buy the songs that your friend put on the iPod that you liked. They had no right to give you the copyrighted music when they sold you the device.
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